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_j5l3on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

Yeah, I wasn't spending $100/day because I'd buy cheap weed in bulk, look for deals and sales, etc. But if you buy 'irresonsibly' and just pick up like an average eighth from a dispensary, it can be pricey.

I realize I'm being pretty pedantic here, you're right that spend $100/day requires massive usage plus buying moderately expensive weed. But it's not, technically, impossible.

_j5l3on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

I can't even roll a joint. Just bong rips all day.

And yeah, definitely not a sustainable or healthy habit...I'm ok now, but my career took a permanent hit. Oh well.

_j5l3on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

https://bedrocan.com/international-research-shows-no-genetic...

> The research shows that genetically it is impossible to prove whether a cannabis plant is an Indica or Sativa. There is no difference in the genes.

> The overall chemical profile, like the genetics, shows no apparent difference between the labels.

_j5l3on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

At the peak of my own usage, I smoked around an ounce every 3 days while (pretending to be) working from home. $40/eighth + taxes a pretty average price in the Bay Area, so that works out to almost exactly $100/day.

That's pretty extreme, even for heavy smokers, but far from impossible.

_j5l3on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

Take a break before it becomes worse. Get a kSafe and lock all your stuff up for a week or two to shake your brain out.

I spent my whole 20s severely addicted to it without even realizing, and when I had to stop I felt like I was going crazy. Couldn't sleep, couldn't think, couldn't eat. It's really better to nip it in the bud.

_j5l3on As weed gets more potent, teens are getting sick

> If one more person tries to tell me it's strain

It's like telling an alcoholic to try switching from vodka to tequila, because vodka makes you angry and depressed but tequila makes you a fun drunk. THC is THC, and any difference is psychosomatic.

_j5l3on Please, don't build another Large Hadron Collider

> Furthermore it seems like anti-democratic behaviour is getting punished now, too, if you look over to Poland.

They're saying anti-democratic behavior is being punished, which implies that Poland is pro-democracy.

_j5l3on Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-Powell_Scouts%27_Associa...

vs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America

Baden-Powell scouting is co-ed, non-religious, and founded in the 70s. Boy Scouts of America is the 'original' version, and, as recently as 15 years ago (I think some of this has changed since) explicitly excluded atheists, girls, and gay kids. BSA leadership is (or was, I think this has changed) heavily influenced by conservative Mormons.

Also, they culturally appropriate the fuck out of Native American culture. Think white suburban dads dancing around with costume jewelry and plastic headdresses dancing 'native style' dances to 'commune with the Great Spirit of the land'.

I'm glad of my time spent in BSA, but I wish I'd had the opportunity for BP instead.

_j5l3on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures

> L3 to L4 is basically about writing good code on your own, and isn't really affected by promo culture

I'm unsarcastically glad that you had a different experience at Google than me. This was not my experience, nor the experience of anyone else on my immediate team.

_j5l3on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures

> result in 6 engineers creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless, but much more work.

We didn't create our own, but we did migrate our codebase to a new server-side rendering framework twice in my time there.

Also, nobody on our team ever got promoted.

_j5l3on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures

At Google at least, if you stay low level for too long, you get fired. If your team is full of low level people maintaining a project that's stable, you need to invent work to justify your existence.

_j5l3on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures

> I guess you could switch the process to "promo after N years of not being fired at your current level" but that seems even worse.

Ex googler here, and when I was there 4 years ago this was true of L3 and L4. My entire team was L3's and L4's. We spent literally all of our time on projects with no meaningful impact on the company, but that made for promo packets.

6 engineers focused on rewriting the form to input credit cards on YouTube for 3 years. Completely insane.

_j5l3on Ask HN: What happened to Twitter poison pill?

> I had to learn this in college, many years ago.

I majored in Computer Science and Physics. Which of these disciplines would mergers and acquisitions have been in? Should my algorithms class taught us about diluted stock and RSUs vs ISOs? Does my quantum mechanics professor have a unit on hostile takeovers?

_j5l3on Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4

> You can just fire people.

Not at Google, you can't. Firing someone who's performing abysmally still takes up to 6 months, between all the process and PIPs and paperwork and shit.

_j5l3on The Document Culture of Amazon

Go back to Blind.

_j5l3on Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019

Former Palantir employee here (left 2016), your description is exactly what it was like when I left. No machine learning or AI phds, just gluing databases together and building a shiny UI.

_j5l3on Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Finalized

Finally, we've discovered the true value of blockchain: Making people learn about fiduciary policy.

_j5l3on Does Diversity Trump Ability? An Example of the Misuse of Mathematics [pdf]

It's 4*the proportion of points that fall in the circle.

_j5l3on WTF, HTML and CSS?

It's 4.4% usage rate worldwide. China is 22%.

_j5l3on Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined

It's not supposed to replace LESS/SASS, it's a supplement. That's why it's a postprocessor, not a preprocessor.

_j5l3on Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined

I think the idea is that, instead of writing x other style language (SASS, LESS, etc.) that is turned into css, you write css that turns into different css. This means you can use other SASS/LESS/etc... and myth together.

_j5l3on Tab Closed; Didn't Read

While I'm all for sticking it to the man, isn't this a legally dangerous thing to do?

_j5l3on Empty-Stomach Intelligence

I'm the same way. I've never understood people who work all day and, at 11pm, casually mention that they haven't eaten since last night. If I even skip breakfast I can't get any work done until lunch.

_j5l3on Snapchat is Intrinsically Worthless

To be fair, the vast majority of the comments in that link are really positive.

_j5l3on Webdesign tool Macaw raises $275k on Kickstarter, $200k more than original goal

I think the idea is that this is for people who have learned the code to structure a webpage, but are sick of fiddling around with CSS/LESS/SASS to get a certain div in exactly the right place.

_j5l3on ‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn to Bermuda

It's a paywall that automatically sends you back. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101104483 is the nonpaywall link.

_j5l3on W3C green-lights adding DRM to the Web's standards

What is RMS in this context? Googling got me nowhere.

_j5l3on If It's Important, Don't Hack It

Completely agree with this. Me and some other friends were legitimately excited for Google+ when it was released as beta but couldn't get an invite. By the time it went public nobody cared enough to fill out a profile.

_j5l3on Trig Functions Your Math Teachers Never Taught You

Surprised noone has posted http://www.theonion.com/articles/nations-math-teachers-intro... yet.

_j5l3on What's That Programming Language?

Seriously, this almost seems like they went out of their way to make an unintuitive page. Who makes a form field without an enter button? And the forfeit box covers the input.